Kate Yoder
@katemyoder
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Word nerd @grist. Writing about climate + language, history, culture, accountability. Thinking about what's for dinner
Seattle, WA
Joined December 2012
Confused by recycling? Wondering why the symbol doesn't seem to make sense anymore? I spent half a year researching what happened. I found that corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its meaning. https://t.co/bG0JkmxVIC
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Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.
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The English language was once full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the natural world they describe. @katemyoder reports via @grist: https://t.co/14TLVBXZ90
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President Biden's American Climate Corps was quietly disbanded -- and in some ways, the jobs program never existed to begin with, @katemyoder reports:
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Biden's green jobs program was never what it seemed. Now it's shutting down before Trump takes office.
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“I actually think it’s still a great time to start a climate startup. Just don’t call it a climate startup," @leepnet tells @katie_brigham. Climate tech is dead, long live climate tech: https://t.co/6lT3QUfizx
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It’s time for another rebrand.
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in recent years, i noticed that the concept of "climate anxiety" had become a sort of a privilege punch line, and an emotion/experience shared by millions risked going the way of self-care and wellness culture. i wanted to explore why for @grist:
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Concerns about our future are valid — but they aren't always shared by those who are fighting to survive in the present.
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an instant @katemyoder classic, if you will -- a comprehensive and beautifully laid out exploration of why nuance is so hard to accept or understand in any politically-tinged conversation:
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Patrick Brown is trying to tell a complicated story about climate change. Many don't want to hear it.
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A year ago, climate scientist @PatrickTBrown31 criticized his own wildfire study in Nature, causing an uproar. I kept wondering why he did it. I spent the summer talking to Patrick and those who know him, reviewing private emails, to get the inside scoop https://t.co/oG5LCPHr6E
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Patrick Brown is trying to tell a complicated story about climate change. Many don't want to hear it.
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Why has the history of climate change knowledge in the US (which goes back further than many today might think) been overlooked? @katemyoder for @grist:
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It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated, newly unearthed documents show.
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Author Barbara Kingsolver told @Grist that the American Climate Corps is “one of the most exciting things that’s happening in the country right now.” More on the kickoff of the American Climate Corps from @katemyoder: https://t.co/Dn4Rd74c1i
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This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.
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We've become so focused on making everything recyclable, we forget to question whether recycling everything was the best goal in the first place. And that's exactly how companies wanted it. My latest project for @grist
https://t.co/bG0JkmxVIC
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Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.
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Does giving a hurricane a name change how we talk about it, or even prepare for it? My latest for @grist looks at the history of naming storms and how it's always been tied up with cultural biases https://t.co/IjBKOcNn03
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Giving hurricanes human names makes them memorable, but the practice has resulted in some strange side effects.
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Major climate reports often say that climate change is especially damaging to women and children. But why? Today, @grist, @voxdotcom, and @19thnews copublished a series on how climate change affects the reproductive cycle. The takeaways may surprise you. https://t.co/ClGlCCVQcE
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A new series from Grist, Vox, and The 19th explores how climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
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I did not know that the influencer behind the butter board trend was part of a “Dairy Dream Team” paid by an industry marketing group
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The Butter board is just the beginning. From MrBeast to the McDonald's mascot Grimace, industry fingerprints are all over dairy's viral run.
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Oil execs knew natural gas was bad for the climate, but promoted it anyway. That's just one of many revelations from new documents released this week as part of a congressional investigation into Big Oil's climate deception. For @grist, w/ @katemyoder.
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A trove of documents released ahead of a congressional hearing shows BP acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised.
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At Aspen Ideas, the White House unveiled a new logo for the American Climate Corps and told @grist that a long-awaited jobs portal for the program with a couple hundred open positions will launch next month.
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Modeled after FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, the climate corps will employ Americans to improve the country.
New from @grist & @NaveenaSivam: You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month https://t.co/libyy28FHV
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i wrote about the threat of the environmentalist tyrant in 'the curse,' and why it makes us so uneasy:
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How does someone committed to sustainability make for such a believable monster?
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Spoke to @katemyoder at @grist about a new report by @CCDHate analysing climate misinformation on Twitter using the CARDS model developed by @TravisCoan1, @cboussalis & @MirjamNanko. CCDH finds (as we did) that misinformation is transitioning to solutions https://t.co/NkzEq3R08D
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Good chance there will be a ballot initiative in Washington giving voters a chance to throw out the state's seemingly quite successful cap on carbon, which critics blame for high gasoline prices: https://t.co/pRguqHGZv2 via @katemyoder
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A repeal initiative blaming the state's climate law for higher gas prices could wind up on the ballot in November.
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new investigation: dozens of utilities offer homebuilders incentives –including cash and luxury travel – to install gas appliances trade groups are also training members to sell builders on the continued use of gas, newly revealed recordings show 🧵 https://t.co/bXbCElA8hY
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Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel
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What are cities doing to try to get gas out of homes and businesses, following a court ruling striking down Berkeley's ban on gas hookups? Good rundown from @akiellyhu:
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Amid an uncertain legal landscape, lawmakers are finding new ways to electrify buildings.
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